Mark Ryan, Principal of Our Lady of Lourdes, said the school was blessed to have had foundation teachers Sisters Teresa Daly and Mary Stephen attend the anniversary.

“We had a morning tea and cake for all of the invited guests, some of the parents brought along food, and some of the old students had a bit of a tour of the school to see how the school has changed,” Mr Ryan said.

Due to poor weather conditions, the array of activities organised for the children were postponed to the following week.

The Vicar General Fr Peter Whitely at Our Lady of Lourdes School on 25 May. Photo: Supplied.

Mr Ryan said Our Lady of Lourdes strives to continue being an excellent Catholic school of the Perth Archdiocese.

“A good school relies on its staff to deliver a wide range of aspects, including the curriculum, the social side of things, the well-being of all the students, and the pastoral care. We have all of those things in place,” he explained.

“Being a good Catholic school means that our belief in God is there and that we all have that same belief that Jesus created for us, we want to live our life like Him as a guide, and we want to really portray that message: to live your life as a good person as Jesus wanted us to do.

“We really instil that in our students, to live their lives as good people – to show them what that means is really important.”

Sr Teresa Daly, 92, was one of the foundation teachers in 1958 for one year.

“There was three of us,” she recalled. “There was Sr Angela in charge, and Sr Mary and myself. We taught in a church building that gave us three rooms.

“I taught in the part that has the Blessed Sacrament, and, of course, each morning Fr Kelly took the Blessed Sacrament out. It was a privilege that the class I was teaching could be there to witness,” Sr Daly expressed.